Brodsky, Joseph: Less Than One: Selected Essays

Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, paperback) Publication Date: May 12, 2020 Publisher Marketing: "This collection of essays thrusts Joseph Brodsky--previously known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the 'Third Wave' of Russian émigré writers. Originally published the year before Brodsky received the Nobel Prize in Literature, Less Than One includes intimate literary essays and autobiographical pieces that evoke the daily discomfort of living under tyranny. His insights into the works of Dostoevsky, Mandelstam, and Platonov, as well as the non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant; Seamus Heaney said of Brodsky's treatment of one of Auden's most famous poems, 'There will be no greater paean to poetry as the breath and finer spirit of all human knowledge than Brodsky's line-by-line commentary on September 1, 1939.' Less than One, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, was Brodsky's first publishe